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After a long time of oscillating between low carb dieting and some form of veganism, I have decided that the vegan diet makes more sense than gaining and losing weight on Atkins, Paleo, or Ketogenic.

Don’t get me wrong, there are good animal foods to eat, but there is an inverse relationship between animal foods in the diet and overall health. The more plant based you are, the better off you are.

The problem with my journey to veganism is that I wasn’t doing it right. Most vegans don’t eat a lot of vegetables. They eat mostly grain. Fructarians eat mostly fruit and seed like they did in the Garden of Eden.

Beans and vegetables don’t taste that good and to make them more palatable, you have to add salt, fat, and condiments. Fruit is fine the way it is, and whole grains like brown rice and quinoa give you strength.

I am still not completely vegan, I eat eggs everyday and sometimes even a bit of chicken, but most of my diet is essentially fruit and brown rice. Remember, it is more healthy to be underfed than overfed. When you are eating very few calories, your body can make up for the deficiencies with air and water. When you eat too much, you become sluggish and the extra food in the intestines putrifies and makes your body toxic.

There are a lot of advantages to being plant-based. Number one, the food is cheaper, because high protein foods are expensive. Secondly, its more hygenic and convenient because meat has to be cooked before it goes bad. This is a big hassle.

It’s best to be an opportunist with food. This is the way man was in previous civilizations. Most of their diet was plant food and on rare times and holidays they slaughtered animals and ate meat. Still, even with the convenience of animal food everywhere, one’s diet should be mostly whole grains and produce. Human biology hasn’t changed that much since ancient times, only industrial methods of agriculture and the corrupt media have.

So as you make your way through this world, just remember, both science and religion agree that the original man was an eater of fruit and seed and not just protein and starch.

In this era, anything goes. But some people still adhere to dietary laws as entailed by their religious views. Observant Jews don’t eat pork, shellfish, or meat and dairy together. Muslims don’t eat pork or drink alcohol. And most of the religious traditions of the Indian subcontinent advocate a lactovegetarian diet.

Veganism is growing in the USA. The biggest reason people do it is because of sympathy for the animals and also environmental concerns. Veganism is not a religion. But if one examines history, it is the Ancient Hebrews who first considered vegetarianism a lifestyle choice.

Kosher vegetarianism is a very sane, moderate view of diet. Meat symbolizes death and decay, while milk and dairy products symbolizes life and growth. Fish and Eggs are considered Parve, or spiritually neutral. A kosher vegetarian eats plant foods, dairy products, and is not against eating fish or egg.

In the east, amongst people like the Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, and Jains, lactovegetarian is reccomended. Some Bengali vegetarians consider fish and seafood to be ‘fruit of the sea’ and therefore still eat it.

And amongst the Taoists, no food is taboo. It’s about eating the right portions and proportions of food relative to each other. Christians too say any food is clean to eat.

My view is to do what is best for yourself. Don’t tell people about your eating habits and don’t bore them with your list of abstentions. I like dairy products, so I’m not giving them up. I do what is best for myself.

I believe meat, fish, and eggs was originally natural and good, but capitalism, consumerism, and overpopulation ruined everything. Applying the factory line production method to agriculture was a grave mistake by humanity. Animals are not machines, every animal, from insect, to cow, to dog, to monkey, to man has sentience.

In this era, it’s not hard to go to a supermarket and get anything you need, all year round. I live in a part of the USA where there are few natural disasters. Veganism and Vegetarianism is a vote for the environment, for animal rights, and reverses many diseases. Only in this country is it easier to get restaurant food with animal foods in it than without. I’ve decided to stop going to restaurants, unless its for a slice of pizza or vegetarian sushi.

I think kosher vegetarianism is the most sane way to go as far as diet. Dairy is very nourishing, in some cases too nourishing, and fish and eggs should be an option for people who don’t have the time or inclination to prepare their own food. The main thing is to eat what’s available and not obsess about diet. But in this crazy society, even the nutrition textbooks are wrong, let alone the media and public perception.

At the end of the day, gaining or losing weight is about calories in and calories out. But also at the end of the day, looks and weight don’t matter so much. You don’t need the body of a bodybuilder to be healthy. And a six pack of abs means nothing. Judge your health by how you feel, how long you live, and the state of health you’re in.

As an aside, remember that years upon years of weight fluctuation on the atkins/paleo/ketogenic diet causes insulin resistance and liver derangement. A doctor can’t invent a crash diet that violates everything we know about nutrition and get away with it. Bodybuilders and boxers use the low carb approach before contest because it causes a rapid decrease in water weight. Don’t think the atkins diet is a lifelong diet. No one in Asia, Africa, or South America is adhering to this philosophy, because they have no obesity problem. They eat a lot of fiber and walk a lot.

I have made significant changes recently in my own health journey. I’ve decided the ketogenic diet is not for me. While low carb, high fat does give you short term results, one invariably adds sugar and starch back to the diet and weight fluctuates.

I’ve become pretty much vegan, and I find this diet helps keep the blood sugar low and the weight in check. I’ve come to the conclusion that starchy foods are the BEST foods not the WORST foods. Things like beans, sweet potato, corn, carrot, pea, lentil, quinoa are actually the best foods because they contain fiber as well as starch and vitamins and minerals.

Beans are the humblest food, and yet, still the best. They combine vegetarian protein, fiber, and complex carbohydrates in the same food, and there is an endless variety of them. Beans are a way cleaner fuel source than meat.

I still eat some rice, but I’ve learned that both brown and white rice are high glycemic foods (compared to the above foods). The glycemic impact of the rice is mitigated by eating other things with the rice.

I am not completely vegan, I still love dairy products like ghee and yogurt, and I’m not against the concept of fish or egg every now and then. I’m opportunistic and realistic and pragmatic.

It is much cheaper and more convenient to live this way. Beans are much cheaper protein than any type of meat, and it’s easier to clean up after yourself as vegan. When you buy meat or fish at a supermarket, you have to cook it before it goes bad. This is constant stress and labor. And eating meat in a restaurant, one never knows what quality of meat they use or how it was handled in kitchen.

Ultimately, any food is good food. That’s what Jesus said, and it’s pretty logical too. If it’s organic material, it’s food for another species. Eating living tissue is called vivisection. All food, whether it be plant or animal in origin, is dead. The more plant food you eat and the less animal food you eat, the better your health will be.